I rarely run into people who consider themselves “fans” of the Mission Impossible films. Though there have only been a handful of action franchises that have been as successful as the Tom Cruise lead series. The fourth film in the sequence, Mission: Impossible- Ghost Protocol has Ethan Hunt (Cruise) emerging from a foreign prison just in time to be set up for a bombing at the Kremlin in Russia. His small team is all that’s left of the once expansive IMF and they are forced to clear their names by finding the true culprits.
The reach of this film is massive. After five years since Mission: Impossible 3, this fourth installment goes for it, pushing the limits of a film that looks like it cost significantly more than its $145 million budget. For example, instead of climbing any old building, Cruise scales the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world’s tallest building. Instead of driving any old sports car, the characters roll up to a party in a BMW i8 concept car, which looks more like a spaceship than something from a manufacturing plant on Earth. But don’t get me wrong, these moments don’t come across as overkill, just impressive.
Amid talk of whether or not Cruise is still able to handle the lead role in a blockbuster, he puts another feather in the cap of what has become one of his most iconic characters. So there is no question he deserves the hype his name brings to a project. He even outshines one of the biggest up and coming action stars in the business, Jeremy Renner. Now that the M: I series has been revived, it will be tough to outdo the scale of Ghost Protocol. But surely there is a way. Should I make a reference to it being impossible? I, unlike the film, am very predictable. (9.2 out of 10)
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